Computer Music

Computer Music's goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions. Our Zinio edition does not include the DVD but it DOES INCLUDE the full software, samples and tutorial files to download. Full details inside. Download does not include Producer Masterclass in-studio video. This digital edition is not printable.

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Rack ’em up… • IK Multimedia has announced a comprehensive update to its mixing and mastering software, T-RackS, that brings some smart mastering additions

Sampleson Wursy • If you’re after some fresh electric piano tones, the first of our two Computer Music software items will satisfy your need…

The software that shaped us • Computer Music has had a 25-year history, and over the life of this magazine, the technology behind music production has changed beyond recognition. Here are the products that set the stage for the modern world…

PERFECT VIRTUAL GUITAR! • Need a great guitar sound, but lacking any guitar-playing contacts, or the skills to play it yourself? Have no fear, your computer is here! With a few pointers, buying advice and hands-on tips, you and your PC or Mac can emulate the greatest guitarists in the world…

All that technology… just to ’play’ guitar • We’ve spent decades trying to emulate the guitar. It might have been easier just to pick one up and learn how to play it…

6 of the best acoustic guitar instruments • Strum, pick and slide your way to some of the best acoustic guitar instruments for your hard drive

Moving beyond the guitar sample • Forget those failed early synths that didn’t quite recreate guitar sounds, because fantastic software is now here!

6 of the best electric guitar instruments • No amp or guitar needed with these high rollers that will have rocking out without an axe in sight

6 of the best guitar effects plugins • The world of software guitar effects is as crowded as it is exciting. Here are the best of the best fx…

11 software guitar tips • Some quick tips to achieve guitar-god greatness

#2 Make a pulsing bass with GForce Axxess • Get mechanical, with a garage-inspired bass patch, which gets right to the pulsing heart of the Axxess synthesiser

#12 How to make modern trance • The future of music belongs to the children, so let's talk about the new form of hard house that is setting TikTok alight…

Arturia FX Collection 5 €499 • Arturia’s huge bundle of effects gets its regular update and it’s still easily as essential as the company’s V Collection, says Andy Jones

Expressive E Noisy 2 €149 • Expressive E bring us a new software instrument that will undoubtedly excite and resonate. Roland Schmidt makes a racket!

Softube Flow Mastering Suite $15/month • Mastering your music just got as easy – or as complex – as you want. But, Andy Jones asks, is it worth yet another monthly subscription?

GForce Software Oberheim DMX £39.99 • If the beginning of your week feels like a Blue Monday, then, as Roland Schmidt implores, take a Walk This Way…

The Synth Factory Horizen $129 • A synth/sampler that packs in a lot of power at an almost silly price – despite its low profile, Andy Jones gazes at Horizen…

Sonuscore The Score $399 • The Score comes up with a film soundtrack based on your stylistic choices, but that’s just the start of it. Andy Jones scores The Score

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 11 £254 • SpectraLayers has come a long way since Steinberg first acquired it, but in Stuart Adams’ view this may be the biggest step up yet

Baby Audio Humanoid $129 • Humanoid brings the ‘extreme’ and ‘radical’...